Garry Thomas Morse

Garry Thomas Morse is the author of four books of poetry: Transversals for Orpheus (2006), Streams (2007), After Jack (2012), and Discovery Passages (2011) about his ancestral Kwakwaka'wakw First Nation, finalist for the Governor General's Award for Poetry and finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Discovery Passages was also voted One of the Top Ten Poetry Collections of 2011 by The Globe and Mail and One of the Best Ten Aboriginal Books from the past decade by CBC's 8th Fire.

Morse's work continues to appear in a variety of publications and is studied at various Canadian universities, including UBC. He is the recipient of the 2008 City of Vancouver Mayor's Arts Award for Emerging Artist and has twice been selected as runner-up for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. He currently resides in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Along with his first collection of stories Death in Vancouver, his genrebusting fiction series The Chaos! Quincunx includes the ReLit Award nominated Minor Episodes / Major Ruckus, Rogue Cells / Carbon Harbour, and the forthcoming Minor Expectations.